# Why do stadium organs sound different than regular organs? ARE they different? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 14, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-stadium-organs-sound-different-than-regular-organs-are-they-different/946507 "2021-07-14T21:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-stadium-organs-sound-different-than-regular-organs-are-they-different/946507/41 "2021-07-29T23:58:11Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > And 4 Hz might be dangerous to the neighborhood. AFAIK, there’s only one organ on the planet with 128’ pipes. That reminds me of a joke: Q: What’s the classical music version of heavy metal? A. Six tubas in the same room. I was at a concert where that joke was mentioned. When all the tubas played together, the sensation was almost physically painful. I can easily believe that an organ such as you mention would have unpleasant effects. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-stadium-organs-sound-different-than-regular-organs-are-they-different/946507/42 "2021-07-30T00:37:01Z")
16 Hz is already pretty “heavy” and counts as infrasound. A contrabass tuba in C only goes down to 32 Hz, according to Wikipedia, but the same article also says there are at least five known examples of a subcontrabass tuba 🙂 There was a _Mythbusters_ episode where they cranked the volume way up on a custom subwoofer which was able to get down to 5 Hz, they say. Now I am wondering how much you could get away with bending a long organ pipe? Cf the Bb sub-contrabass tuba: [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/HUB_Tuba.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/HUB_Tuba.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-stadium-organs-sound-different-than-regular-organs-are-they-different/946507.md?page=2)